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indieVelo Update Version V0.2.4 Released July 3, 2023

The latest indieVelo update V0.2.4 released July 3, 2023, introduces Group Ride mode, Today's Plan integration, and experience enhancements.

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V0.2.4 adds 2 crucial new elements to indieVelo’s mission to help provide the very best infrastructure for online racing.

  • Reactive Bot AI to push you as hard as you want.  Bots now have the ability to more closely follow what you do when riding. 

For initial testing, this AI is limited to group rides (simply select the group ride option when creating your own events and it will be automatically enabled).  Any bots in the ride will then broadly match what the humans do.  If you go fast, they’ll chase you down, if you go slow then they’ll slow down too (and even wait for you if you stop!). 

Ride any course you want, any speed you want, your way.

  • 3rd Party Integrations to give you the choices you want.  indieVelo can now automatically upload your rides to Today’s Plan, and offers increased support for a wider range of Wahoo and Tacx trainers.

On top of all this, there’s some new in-game challenges for July, and a wide variety of improvements and fixes to the UI and stability of indieVelo.  As always, these suggestions for what to include in each release are 100% driven by the community, so if there’s anything you would like to see, please do just let me know.   

If all has gone well, then you shouldn’t have to do anything to get the new version, as indieVelo will just self-update the next time you start it up.

If you find any problems however, instructions on how to manually update are on the website:
https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs/updates

The full patch notes are below!

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“This, and all the other updates, came from suggestions made by athletes and team managers.  With 100% of indieVelo’s roadmap decided by the community, please do keep your ideas coming for what you would like to see and how you would like indieVelo to continue to grow and develop, so that they can be included in future releases.

Thank you again for your continued support towards that shared vision of helping make online cycling the best it can possibly be!”

indieVelo founder Dr. George Gilbert

indieVelo Group Ride Event Sign up

Patch Notes – V0.2.4 – Key changes from last version:

    • Key changes from last version:

      • Added support for reactive bot AI (currently group rides only).

      • Added support for automatically uploading rides to Today’s Plan.

      • Added full Strava compatibility certification.

      • Added in-game note on how to upload rides to Garmin Connect.

      • Added support for unique non-team based clothing (e.g. World/National Champion, Series leader etc).

      • Added support for KICKR SNAP trainers.

      • Added support for displaying Tacx Neo Bike gears.

      • Added ability to customise colour of your location on route profile graph.

      • Added text prompts when using hotkeys.

      • Added new monthly challenges for July.

      • Added lots more teams.

      • Improved resilience when disconnecting from devices over BLE.

      • Improved automated descriptions of events.

      • Improved various UI alignments.

      • Improved consistency of language throughout.

      • Improved disallowed words filter.

      • Improved logging and diagnostics for race rating changes.

      • Improved server resilience to unexpected errors.                 

      • Improved server statistics reporting.

      • Fixed bug that caused instability in Bluetooth connections.

      • Fixed bug that caused avatars to not be customisable after finishing a ride.

      • Fixed bug that caused avatars moving very slowly to briefly disappear.

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